The Veteran's functional gastrointestinal disorder, including gastroenteritis with diarrhea symptoms, is found to have its onset during service and the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's gastrointestinal condition had its onset in service and continues to cause symptoms post-service, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- functional gastrointestinal disorder, gastroenteritis with symptoms of diarrhea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2026
- Citation
- A26020301
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's functional gastrointestinal disorder, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), is presumed to be related to his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War era. The Board granted service connection for this condition.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for celiac disease, functional gastrointestinal disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, and medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness due to a lack of evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's military service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome, swollen lymph nodes, sinusitis, hypercalciuria, and a functional gastrointestinal disorder as the evidence did not support a finding of current disability or nexus to service.
- Denied
The Veteran's request for higher-level review was denied as it was untimely filed.
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